Temple, Kinnaird is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Temple.

Temple, Kinnaird

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 June 1971
Type
Temple
OS grid reference
NO 622 583
Coordinates
56.71498, -2.6183
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Temple at Kinnaird is a wooden R-Doric circular structure, designed as a tempietta with a peristyle on an ashlar podium. It features a dentilled cornice and a truncated conical roof that supports a drum with a conical roof, which is domed on the inside. This building was likely designed by J. Playfair around 1790.

Local climate

Temple, Kinnaird sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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